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Mark Blum

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Buddhism, Japan, culture and society, modernization

Mohammad Reza Kaazempur Mofrad

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

molecular cell biomechanics, bacterial communities / microbiomes, deep learning for biology and medicine

Ussama Makdisi

Dept of History

Ottoman history, Arab history, U.S.-Arab relations, U.S. missionary work in the Middle East

Markita del Carpio Landry

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Dept of Neuroscience

nanomaterials, fluorescence microscopy, sensors, imaging, neuroscience, plant engineering

Elora Shehabuddin

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

transnational feminism, history and politics of feminist movement, activism, critical approaches to development, political economy, South Asia, Middle East, Global South, United States

G. Ugo Nwokeji

Dept of African American Studies

Atlantic slave trade, historical demography, African history and political economy, oil and gas policy

Linda Burton

School of Social Welfare

child welfare, poverty

Laura E. Pérez

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Chicana/Latina feminist & queer literary, visual, performance arts, US women of color thought, decolonial aestetics and decolonial spiritualities

Patrice D. Douglass

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Black feminist theory, Afro-pessimism, feminist philosophy, gender and sexual violence, feminist legal theory, legal theory, political philosophy, Black political thought

Gabor A. Somorjai

Dept of Chemistry

physical chemistry, catalysis, surface science, low-energy electron diffraction, solid state chemistry, macroscopic surface phenomena, adhesion, lubrication, biocompatibility, bonding, reactivity at solid surfaces, scanning tunneling

Jinsoo An

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Korean cinema, Korean culture

Yang Dan

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neuronal circuits, mammalian visual system, electrophysiological, imaging, prefrontal cortex, sleep

Jonathan S. Gould

School of Law

politics and law, Congress

Diego Pirillo

Dept of Italian Studies

Renaissance Europe, early modern Europe, Atlantic History, History of Books and Reading, colonialism, history of science and technology

Lorena Oropeza

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Chicanix history, gender, oral history, race and empire

Ula Y. Taylor

Dept of African American Studies

20th century African American history, African American women's history, Black feminist theory, black nationalism

Thomas Biolsi

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Native Americans, American Indians, governmentality

George F. Smoot

Dept of Physics

cosmology, physics, astrophysics experiments, observational astrophysics, observing our galaxy, the cosmic background radiation, ground-based radio-telescope observations, balloon-borne instrumentation, satellite experiments, the NASA cosmic background

Ken Ueno

Dept of Music

music composition, decolonizing music, noise, sound installations, music of Japan, extended vocal techniques, overtone singing, musical culture of Japan, experimental improvisation

Catherine Albiston

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Dept of Sociology

School of Law

inequality, social change, law, employment, legal profession, public interest law, community-engaged research/scholarship, gender, work and family issues

Leigh Raiford

Dept of African American Studies

social movements, visual culture, memory, photography, African American history and culture

Todd Hickey

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

classics, papyrology, Greek, Egyptian, social and economic history, late antiquity

Patrick Hsu

Dept of Bioengineering

generative biology, language models, virtual cell models, genome mining and editing, synthetic biology, AI agents for science

Andrew Barshay

Dept of History

social thought, social sciences in modern Japan, Marxism, Japanese history, Japanese-Russian relations

Stephen Small

Dept of African American Studies

public history, African diaspora in Europe, British imperialism, community-engaged research/scholarship

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